In the dead of night last spring, as rain fell in stubborn sheets upon the Sussex countryside, 79-year-old artist Maggi ...

Ken Burns has told me time and again, in various interviews about his various films, that all his films are about the same ...

Ken Burns is a curious man. For decades, the director has revolutionized documentary filmmaking with his own take on a ...

John Singer Sargent made his name as the preeminent portrait of Edwardian England’s wealthy. The Wertheimer family took a ...

The 17th century was the era of the Baroque, a style bringing passion, colour and drama to painting, sculpture, architecture ...

The city is alive with artistry, playing host to more than 850 art galleries and 170 museums, the majority of which offer ...

John Currin's art blends satire, hyperrealism, and classical techniques, drawing from varied sources to create a dialogue between the unusual and the beautiful. His work merges elements of Old Master ...

Mary and Saint Luke are the figures in the foreground, placed on both sides of the composition, while the two more miniature ...

For museums and their public, Impressionism is the Goldilocks movement: not too old or too new, not too challenging or too sappy; just right. Renaissance art may baffle with arcane religious symbolism ...

The Royal Academy’s exhibition on Florence does exactly that, exploring the city through the seminal works of art that were made, commissioned or displayed at the high point of the Italian Renaissance ...

Opening on Nov. 13, “De Toutes Beautés!” includes 108 works of art spanning 10,000 years and various cultures.

The auction’s work, most likely created at the same time as "Det sjungande trädet", depicts a confident Isaac in front of an easel with his brush in full action. His clothes are elegant, as he and his ...